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Truck accidents can dramatically impact your life and they’re difficult to take on alone! If you’ve filed a car crash claim, you may think you understand the process and can manage a truck accident claim without legal help, but attempting this may put your recovery at risk.
Before trying to hold a trucking company or commercial driver accountable on your own, consider these challenges and how a Bell Legal Group attorney could help:
1 | Fighting for Your Rights Alone
It’s tough to fight alone when the other side has a large legal team, their employer, and insurance companies to support them. A successful truck accident claim requires you to understand—and exercise—your rights under South Carolina law. If you don’t know what you’re entitled to, the other party could take advantage of your inexperience. An attorney from Bell Legal Group can stand by your side to advocate for your rights and shut down any attempts to undermine your claim.
The driver, the trucking company, and their attorneys may push to minimize your recovery by:
- Shifting blame to you
- Blocking you from examining the vehicles and evidence you’re entitled to review
- Inaccurately calculating damages or ignoring non-economic losses
- Encouraging you to resolve your claim without consideration for future medical treatments or care
2 | Making Mistakes That Jeopardize Your Case
Collisions with large commercial vehicles are frightening, and you may be shaken up and not thinking clearly in the aftermath. One of our Bell Legal Group attorneys can be the support you need to prevent your actions or inactions from jeopardizing the strength of your potential case. Here are a few ways legal representation can mitigate mistakes that could cost you your recovery:
Insist on Medical Treatment: Refusing medical treatment is common, especially when adrenaline masks your pain, but leaving your conditions undocumented can make a claim baseless. At Bell Legal Group, we recommend that you are promptly evaluated to ensure your prognosis and treatment are documented, including any future care.
Collect Evidence: You may not understand what evidence is necessary to prove trucking accident liability or how to investigate the trucking company logbooks and vehicles. Bell Legal Group’s attorneys do. We’re proficient in evidence collection and preservation to substantiate claims for trucking accidents in South Carolina.
Listen & Advise: Accidents are frustrating and you may want to vent to coworkers or make remarks on social media, but doing so may put your case at risk. Before you say something you’ll regret, speak to a South Carolina lawyer about your grievances. Bell Legal Group attorneys are here to listen and advise you on declarations that may impact your future recovery.
3 | Handling Pressure From Insurance Companies
Insurance providers want to avoid costly proceedings and will try to pressure you into accepting an inadequate offer. While you may be experiencing financial stress from the accident, agreeing to an unfair amount can hurt you in the long run. Instead, ask the attorneys from Bell Legal Group for help. Not only will we review your case to determine the appropriate damages, but we can communicate with the insurance company while you focus on healing.
4 | Enduring Legal Processes Alone
Negotiating a truck accident claim in South Carolina is challenging for anyone whose life has been upended by a crash. The freight company’s lawyers may purposely halt progress by limiting their availability, delaying communications, or dragging out evidence collection. This is an age-old tactic to wear you down so you’re likely to accept any resolution. If you sense this is happening with your claim, contact us for help. We can review the accident and recommend legal actions to move your case forward.